Smittenness

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

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Noun
  1. 1
    The quality of being smitten. uncountable

    "Howard, in my favourite of all your books, Roots Schmoots, you acknowledge that Our People are “smitten with their own tragedy”. But that tragedy and your smittenness seem to have overwhelmed your capacity for empathy for the other contemporary tragedy – that of the Palestinian right to self-determination and sovereignty."

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"Howard, in my favourite of all your books, Roots Schmoots, you acknowledge that Our People are “smitten with their own tragedy”. But that tragedy and your smittenness seem to have overwhelmed your capacity for empathy for the other contemporary tragedy – that of the Palestinian right to self-determination and sovereignty."

Etymology

From smitten + -ness.

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